Mystic Mantra: Present is perfect

Do you want to be happy in life? If so, then you better stop doing wrong things and become aware of these 10 ways to suffer in life. Avoid these and you’ll automatically be on the right track:

• Mixing with negative people: It’s a guaranteed way to fail in life. No matter what you want to do, negative people will tell you it just won’t work. Soon, you will also become negative.
• Not knowing what you want: Most people are unaware as to what they want in life. They want money but they are not happy even after they get it, because they do not understand true happiness.
• Doubting your success: When you doubt your own success, you are bound to fail because your doubts will signal the cosmic forces that you are not very serious about your success, thus ringing in failure.
• Take revenge: There are many people in this world who hurt you, belittle you, misbehave with you and you always look for an opportunity to take revenge on them. But even before you can take your revenge, people find new opportunities to hurt you again. If you continue to plot revenge, you lose precious time. It is you who is always the loser and not the people who hurt you.
• Thinking negative: Thinking negative is akin to inviting the cosmic forces to make your life difficult.
• Living in the past: The inability to forget the past, makes you miss out on the present. Remembering the past recreates those painful situations, making you suffer continuously.
• Having no control over speech: Though you may be good, caring, helpful and truthful, you have no control over your tone, tenor and speech. Hence, people misunderstand you and don’t like you.
• Inability to accept things easily: The inability to accept that life does not always work to plan is a flaw. This makes us struggle for a flawed sense of perfection, while being unable to make peace with what you have.
• A gullible mind: When anybody talks negative/ill about you or your dear ones, you get affected easily since you have no confidence in yourself and in them. This makes you depressed strains your relationship with others.
• One can’t always be “right”: Irrespective of whether you are right or wrong, you try to impose your decision, viewpoint and perception on others. You refuse to budge and concede to others’ views. You enjoy getting into an argument and force people to agree with you.

Sadguru Rameshji is a modern age spiritual guru and founder of Poorna Ananda,
a centre for spiritual evolution and joyful living. Visit www.poornaananda.org